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Climate Change is Coming for Your Coffee

Coffee plant in Brazil. Photo: Evan George

The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

My drug habit is becoming more expensive thanks to the dangerous duo of climate change and Donald Trump. The cost of coffee keeps going up. I saw firsthand why this is happening back in May on an eye-opening trip to Acre, Brazil, where I toured a couple of farms in the Amazon. One was a …

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